famousringo said:
I think the difference is in the attitude of the developers. With previous consoles, lack of patching necessitated rigorous quality control. With patches, quality is less important when you know you can just patch the software a few weeks/months down the road. It makes the developer lazy and can lead to premature releases. It's been a pretty common complaint of PC gamers for a while now. Those who buy the game on release complain about paying money to be a beta tester. |
Um, developers never think meh who cares if it's slightly broken, we'll make a patch later, or at least any developer worth anything would never think that. People know if you release a shitty/buggy game and we do everything we can to stop all bugs possible.
Every game has bugs, nobody is going to release one without bugs and it's silly to think that will happen. Patching is a great thing because it allows developers to go back if something is sever enough it needs patching.
